Definition of Regma

1. n. A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

Definition of Regma

1. a type of fruit [n -MATA]

Medical Definition of Regma

1. A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. Origin: NL, fr. Gr, -, fracture, fr. To break. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regma

regloss
reglossed
reglosses
reglossing
reglow
reglowed
reglowing
reglows
reglucosylate
reglucosylates
reglucosylation
reglue
reglued
reglues
regluing
regma (current term)
regmacarp
regmata
regna
regnal
regnal name
regnal names
regnal number
regnal numbers
regnal year
regnal years
regnancies
regnancy
regnant
regnative

Literary usage of Regma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"Seba the eldest son of Chush, regma his brother, and Sheba the son of regma, possessed both the shores of Arabia Felix. Saba took that part toward the Red ..."

2. An Introductory Latin Book by Albert Harkness (1879)
"regma is a noun (39) of the First Declension (48), as it has ne in the Genitive Singular (47); STEM, regma (48, 1). Singular: reglna, reginae, reginae, ..."

3. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Fruit a regma (Lindley's Intr. to Bot.), surrounded at the base by the involucre a ... Fruit a regma, leathery, beaked with the styles ; consisting of 3 ..."

4. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Ovary roundish. Style thread-shaped. Stigmas 3. Fruit a regma ... Fruit a regma, leathery, beaked with the styles ; consisting of 3 incomplete cells that ..."

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